On 2014-08-28 13:05-0700 David MacMahon wrote: > Hi, Alan, > > On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:35 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> According to >> http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Files-Readme/ it may be >> that all I would have to do was change the README name to README.md to >> make the SF software translate that file from markdown to html, but >> then according to that same documention we would not be in a good >> situation because any other file in the same directory with readme or >> README somewhere in the name would take precedence if updated later >> than README.md. > > Yeah, that multiple README resolution is potentially an issue. Wouldn't that > be an issue even for plain text README files? Suppose someone changes > README.emacs. Would README.emacs be the README file that gets shown when > browsing the repository? Maybe they give priority to "README" (bare and with > known extensions) over "*[Rr][Ee][Aa][Dd][Mm][Ee]*" to avoid this very > problem?
I thought it would be an issue, but experimentally (and contrary to the above documentation) it is not (at least for the git browse area for SF). The exact filename README always takes precedence over any other variant of *README* for that browse area regardless of when updated. It's also possible that documentation is complete BS (say left over from pre-Allura software days at SourceForge), but I don't have time/inclination to do the various experiments to see what the real story is so I am going to stick with the exact filename README because I know that is the one that always receives precedence now in the git browsing area. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
